Our cities are the main drivers of the world’s economic output, but they are also massive consumers and account for 60-80% of energy consumption and 75% of carbon emissions. Urban efficiency is the most effective way to turn the challenges of our cities into opportunities. We have the technologies to harvest the benefits of urbanisation, and this site offers an insight into already implemented solutions – getting more, while using less.

Key urbanization challenges

Approximately 200,000 new urban dwellers every day

In 1950 two-thirds lived in rural areas. By 2050, two-thirds will live in cities

Explore our case stories

FRANCE: A new heating network makes the French city Nantes capable of reducing 17,000 tons of CO² per year. The project takes place in several steps and includes schools, administrative buildings, a nursery and 7,400 residential apartments.

Urban Rigger could crush European housing problem

EUROPE: Students are amongst the first to experience the challenges of finding a place to live in an undersupplied market. In fact, rising urbanisation in Europe’s major cities will leave a projected shortfall of more than four million beds by 2025.

Nordhavn – Denmark’s energy lab of the future

DENMARK: Scandinavia’s biggest urban development project is rising in Copenhagen. It’s a lab for future smart energy technologies and an opportunity for Danfoss to demonstrate the art of intelligent and climate-friendly heating and cooling.

Danfoss heats up Hamburg’s “Gateway to the world”

GERMANY: A whole new city quarter, HafenCity, has been built in the heart of Hamburg. It is currently Europe’s largest inner-city development project, and it is setting green standards as city planners have chosen the most sustainable and economically advantageous solutions with Danfoss technologies.

First step towards smart city in Poland

POLAND: The city of Słupsk and Danfoss have signed an agreement to build a vision for the city as smart and highly energy-efficient.

The lost city of Benxi is back on the map

CHINA: A few years ago, Benxi was suffocating in smog. Today, the capital of Chinese steel industry can breathe again. Implementing a district heating system will reduce the annual coal use by 198,000 tons.

How to reach a water wonderland

DENMARK: Denmark aims to be the first country in the world with a carbon-neutral water utility sector. Over the last five years, energy consumption in the Danish water utility sector has plummeted by 20% - and the Danes have now even managed to create the first energy-neutral catchment area in the world.

Crushing the data center challenge

GLOBAL: Data centers currently use nearly 3% of the world’s electricity - as much as Great Britain - and emit as much CO2 as all the world’s airlines combined. We have the technology to cut down data centers’ electricity consumption and use their surplus heat for heating homes.